Every synthetic material (plastics, rubber, resins) upon which our modern civilization is built is manufactured from petroleum. It's so hard to imagine our physical world without these ubiquitous materials. They're everywhere and they're in everything. Packaging, textiles, coatings, paints, tires, paneling, building materials, consumer goods. The list is practically endless.

But, our supply of petroleum is not endless. When we run out, we won't just be unable to power internal combustion engines; we'll be unable to construct our physical world.

On top of that, legacy synthetic materials pollute our environment, drinking water, and food supply and their production contributes over 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere every year.

At Citrimer, we're reimagining the production of synthetic materials, starting from their underlying chemistry. Our materials are manufactured from cheap, readily available, sustainable feedstocks sourced from plants or biomass. From those feedstocks, we engineer brand new classes of biobased synthetic polymers that perform and cost the same as petroleum-derived incumbents.